-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm still working on the St. Paul campus AP. I'm waiting to hear back from the Facilities people over there.. They are going to install our antenna mast. Hopefully sometime soon. 802.11b chips are designed to handle diversity antennas.. aka, more than one antenna. Designing an anteanna to recive a variety of polarization should help. but this also has the disadvantage that you are listening to more background noise. the reason a lot of outdoor wireless stuff is very polarized, is to help reject background noise, and reduce the noise floor. these antennas would be interesting to try in comparison to standard setups. - -ben "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Haudy Kazemi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to this list but I do recognize a handful of names from other > circles I'm in. Anyway, to get some context and list background, I was > looking through the list archives and saw an April discussion by Ben Kochie > and Chad Walstrom (among others) about an access point on Biosci. > http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/2003-April/001391.html > http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/2003-April/001392.html > > Does anyone know if this has panned out, and if it has, if there are any > access requirements (registration, University folks only, etc.)? > > Second topic: has anyone heard of or used the 'multipolar' antennas that > www.wifi-plus.com is advertising for 2.4ghz? They have several models, up > to 22 dbi gain, and they claim to work much better than regular antennas in > situations with obstructions (trees, etc.). They have a message board too > but it has not been up very long so there are a limited number of postings > on it. The message board does contain positive postings. > > I did look into the folks behind these antennas, and its looks like the > same guys who were creating the Nil-Jon antennas used for lower frequency > bands. Googling found me several positive, apparantly independent, > references to the Nil-Jon antennas. I couldn't find any reviews or > comments on their newer 2.4ghz designs other than what is on their site. I > did speak to two of the guys behind wifi-plus and they said it is such a > new design to the market that reviews on this product in particular haven't > come out yet. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P8Q2flzKmtpiQEMRApZMAJwNtKO7uya4ZTVB4sX5dykNTXNpmACdG+js ndz/QahMcB4ChId3JCBOw7Y= =FWT1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list